Courses in Suduroy, Faroe islands 2019

One of the most beautiful and green islands in the Faroe Islands is Suduroy. Let the calm wash over you. not only will you get inspiration but time to reflect, and get insight to the now. give yourself a once in a lifetime experience at one of the most remote places in the world.

Practical Information

The Faroese Krone is the same as the Danish one

Bring health insurance papers.

There is a modern hospital in Tvøroyri, that has the same rules applied as in Denmark. you can see the hospital website here:Hospital there is also a communal doctor that you can go to consultations in Tvøroyri and Vágur. if you need any acute form of help from police call 112.

Art tours to the Faroe Islands with Mr. Palle Julsgart are arranged during the summer of 2018. The courses last for 8 days total, the first one is from Sunday 27th May to 3rd June 2018.

The art tours are a kind of active holiday which we spend in the Faroese nature, while we make paintings and drawings. You will be living in Faroese houses in the charming village Fámjin on the west coast of Suduroy. Every day we will visit various villages around the island where we will work with the art. We will visit Sumba, Vágur, Porkeri, Froðba, Tvøroyri, Sandvík, Hvalba. We will try to paint one painting every day.

Relax, find new friends, recharge your batteries and get new energy and get an experience of a lifetime.

There are still vacant places for 2018.

We are trying to establish a food program that will fit to everyone’s needs, so if there is anyone who is a vegetarian or if anyone has any particular allergies, you should let Mr. Julsgart know as soon as possible.

Programme

Sunday

Arrival to the Faroe Islands on Vágar Airport from destinations in Denmark.

Mr. Palle Julsgart will meet you at the airport, he will be wearing a red pullover and have a sign in his hands.

If you have a driver’s licence you can let Mr. Julsgart know, because the plan is to rent cars, so you can drive to and from all the various places you’re visiting while on your stay. We will then drive to Tórshavn where we will take the ferry Smyril to the island Suduroy.

In Suduroy we will drive to the village Fámjin, where you will be staying the next week. Upon arrival you will get some coffee, a sandwich and cake.

The programme below may change due to the weather.

Monday

Breakfast from 8 am – 9 am

From 9 am – 12 pm we will paint in Fámjin from various locations.

We will eat lunch between 12pm and 1pm in the afternoon.

In the afternoon we will paint in Fámjin from various locations.

We eat dinner together at 6 pm. After that you can do what you feel like doing, be it go for a long walk or a hike.

The program will be similar every day, but in various places around the island.

Tuesday

After breakfast we will visit Sumba, which is a beautiful village in the southernmost part of the island with the islet “Sumbiar holmur” just outside the village and the bird cliff Beinisvørð raising above the village. We will be painting here from various locations in the morning and afternoon. On this excursion as well as other excursions we will bring lunch with us and eat it there together with thé and coffee.

Around 5 pm in the evening, we will return to Fámjin, and eat dinner together.

Wednesday

After breakfast we will go for an excursion to the northernmost village Sandvík, which has the largest sandy beach in the Faroe Islands. From the village one can see the two smaller islands Lítla Dímun and Stóra Dímun. This village has Viking history. We will paint here in the morning and in the afternoon.

Around 5 pm in the evening, we will return to Fámjin, and eat dinner together.

If the weather permits it, we will go for a walk up to the lake above Fámjin, the Kirkjuvatn (Church Lake). If not this evening, we will do it another evening, it is a nice trip in beautiful tranquil nature.

Thursday

After breakfast, we will go to Vágur, which lies around a fjord and has very little distance from the east to the west coast. We will be painting here in the morning from various locations, one of them will be Vágseiði, an isthmus on the west coast, a stunning place with cliffs and an old harbour and often quite rough sea. We will eat our lunch which we have brought with us, and after that we will visit the neighbouring village Porkeri which has a charming wooden church from 1847 with turf roof. We will be painting in Porkeri in the afternoon.

Either this day or another day we will visit an art museum in Vágur, the Ruth Smith Art Museum. We can do that on a day if there is poor weather.

We will eat dinner together in Fámjin.

Friday

After breakfast in Fámjin, we will go to Tvøroyri, where we will visit Palle Julsgart’s art gallery “Oyggin”, the garden and the greenhouse. We will also go to the isolated beautiful valley of Hvannhagi, which can only be reached by foot or boat. We will walk to the valley and bring food and thé/ coffee with us. The trip takes around half an hour up to one hour each way. We will paint or make sketches there. After around three hours it will be time to walk back again.

In the evening we can visit the historical place down in the harbour with the old buildings from when Tvøroyri was built in the mid 19th century. We will visit the pub which has historical items and is a living museum. Drinks are not included in the price, but can be bought extra if you wish. After that we will go back to Fámjin.

Saturday

This day we will go to Tvøroyri and Froðba. We will paint in the galleries garden or inside of the greenhouse, it depends on the weather. We will also visit the older village Froðba, where one can see columnar basalt in various ways. There is also a statue of the well known Faroese poet Poul F. Joensen, who lived there most of his life. We can also paint from some locations in Froðba.

After that we will evaluate the paintings and hang them up. We could invite guests if you wish for the exhibition.

Sunday

You will be leaving in the morning and eat breakfast onboard the ferry. Palle Julsgart will take you all the way back to the airport. We will spend the day in the capital if there is time, until you are leaving the Faroe Islands again, and hopefully you had some memorable moments here.